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Example 39-5
Dəpəy muyɛmuyɛr də Manu, muyɛmuyɛr də ɔrlãd.
Dəpəy
then
muyɛr~muyɛr
woman~woman
də
of
Manu,
Manu
muyɛr~muyɛr
woman~woman
də
of
ɔrlãd.
Orlando
then the women of Manu('s family), the women of Orlando('s family)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Cardoso 2009
: 175
Language:
Diu Indo-Portuguese
by
Hugo C. Cardoso
cite
Datapoints:
Order of possessor and possessum: Possessum-possessor
Functions of reduplication: Only iconic functions
Marking of possessor noun phrases: Adpositional or case marking of possessor
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human nouns
Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural reduplication
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